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"I thought I should make you sit up. I really calculated upon doing so, sir. Yes, I have established the plain fact that this Brotherson was near to, if not in the exact line of the scene of crime in each of these extraordinary and baffling cases. A very odd coincidence, is it not?" was the dry conclusion of our eager young detective.
"Odd enough if you are correct in your statement. But I thought it was conceded that the man Brotherson was not personally near, -- was not even in the building at the time of the woman's death in Hicks Street; that he was out and had been out for hours, according to the janitor."